Great article Tom. In my book that nobody except relatives has purchased and nobody except my editor and me have read, I am discussing the notion of an individual's character ( his/her stable personality), its emergence in context, and the notion of compatibility between it and its meta-context, one's expanded place of emergence (expanded in the sense of nature and culture, where culture combines the imposed political distortions and history). I am an immigrant, I worked and lived in many places, and after more than three decades of "research" I still don't' have a 100% match, although Canada is my home. The thing is that context and your understanding of it change, hence the "home" you left, at least on the surface, is not the "home" you return to.
But then, I have not returned except as a tourist and I am extrapolating on that basis ....
Thanks for this, Bogdan (though somewhat sad to hear that the book has not yet done as well as it deserves... :-( )
Yeah, similar experience, as you can guess: I still don't feel fully certain that anywhere is my 'home' (nor anyone, for that matter. oh well.) Returning is strange: there are elements place that I miss, though in most cases I don't really miss the people. I have never felt that Ithat fit anywhere - a pernnial outsider, even in my own family. Odd, in many ways, but that's how it is. Heigh-ho...
Great article Tom. In my book that nobody except relatives has purchased and nobody except my editor and me have read, I am discussing the notion of an individual's character ( his/her stable personality), its emergence in context, and the notion of compatibility between it and its meta-context, one's expanded place of emergence (expanded in the sense of nature and culture, where culture combines the imposed political distortions and history). I am an immigrant, I worked and lived in many places, and after more than three decades of "research" I still don't' have a 100% match, although Canada is my home. The thing is that context and your understanding of it change, hence the "home" you left, at least on the surface, is not the "home" you return to.
But then, I have not returned except as a tourist and I am extrapolating on that basis ....
Thanks for this, Bogdan (though somewhat sad to hear that the book has not yet done as well as it deserves... :-( )
Yeah, similar experience, as you can guess: I still don't feel fully certain that anywhere is my 'home' (nor anyone, for that matter. oh well.) Returning is strange: there are elements place that I miss, though in most cases I don't really miss the people. I have never felt that Ithat fit anywhere - a pernnial outsider, even in my own family. Odd, in many ways, but that's how it is. Heigh-ho...